Videos tagged “abolition”

American Experience wanted something special for their new mini series. They had in mind a sequence communicating the role of print in the Abolitionist debate, and they wanted to show the country eventually being torn in two over the issue.
Our idea was to use archival printed material that is getting swept across the country by the winds of change. The extensive use of paper in a dynamic way presented special challenges. We wanted a lot of natural movement, but it was also very important that the paper end up right were we need it when we need it. After doing tests with real paper and with virtual paper in MAYA, it was decided that virtual paper would give us the most control, so the sequence was created in MAYA using n-cloth.
CREDITS
Creative director/Animator: Aaron Nee
Map Design: Noah Smith
Archival Recreations: Alisa Placas Frutman
Music: Tom Phillips
TOOLS
Maya
Mental Ray
After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
Final Cut
Photoshop

Gary L. Francione is Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. While traveling about N. America meeting people for I'm Vegan, the crew stopped for an on-camera chat with the professor about animal rights and veganism.

Professor Francione has developed a theory of animal rights that relies only on the sentience of nonhumans and that requires the abolition, and not merely the regulation, of animal exploitation. Professor Francione’s theory, which is developed in Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? (Temple University Press, 2000), differs considerably from those proposed by others, most notably Peter Singer and Tom Regan.

Professor Francione argues that there are profound theoretical and practical differences between animal rights and animal welfare. He is critical of what he calls “new welfarism,” or the position that incremental improvements in animal welfare will lead to the abolition of animal exploitation. These views are contained in Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 1996).

More XParticles Bliss.
This one is made up of a shapes (cube/sphere/pyramid) in a cloner with a random noise attached for movement. XParticles was told to target/cover the cloner, Operation set to 'visual polygons using rays'. This makes the particles stick to only lit up parts of the cloner. Pretty cool. Tolerance was also set to 100. To finish it off I used a mirror effect in FCPX and made the sound track in Ableton.

Cold World during their European tour at the Broomhill Centre in Sheffield, UK.
Footage by Ashley Rommelrath. Twitter @Rawsorcery
Make sure you watch in HD. There was a huge loss in quality during compression and the upload so if anyone wants the full 1080p HD footage, drop me a message and I'll sort it out.